NY Observer looks at why Lawyers are one of the largest groups on Facebook. [thanks to Abovethelaw for this one].Meanwhile, What are people doing when they are on Facebook? Compete lets us know.

Nutsie is an application that allows you to listen to your iTunes playlist online or on your mobile phone – no need to have an iPhone! Not only can you listen to your own playlist you can share your playlist with friends.

meTracks is an innovative web based audio player, allowing you to listen to your music, when you want it, and from any computer. 1Gb of space. Nice looking, but Ajaxtunes does the same thing and you get unlimited storage. Speaking of Michael Robertson, the man behind it, Ajaxwrite, Lindows/Linspire, and also the mp3.com founder, I was sad to see that his CDAnywhere project has crashed and burned. I still think the idea of the bundle of physical CD and MP3 download is one that could work.

The US State Department has launched their first blog. It’s called Dipnote, with the aim “provide you with a window into the work of the people responsible for our (US) foreign policy, and will give you a chance to be active participants in a community focused on some of the great issues of our world today.” [Via Abbie at Abstracked]. Which reminded me that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Mike Leavitt is also blogging

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